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Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Citizens may be able to go to the the International Space Station each year : The next hot tourist destination




NASA announced on Friday at the Nasdaq Stock Exchange that it is opening up the International Space Station (ISS) for marketing, advertising, off-earth manufacturing and even tourism, for beneficial activities.

Robin Gattens, NASA's Deputy Director, NASA said "We are enabling two commercial flights per year with private astronauts, it depends on the fact that they will be potentially a dozen or so many personal astronauts per year at the International Space Station."

Gattens also added some points , "Private astronauts from other countries can fly through an American institution". This means that the passengers of  ISS do not have to pass the United States passport . They need to book their training, their ride and their 30-day stay through American Space Carriers.
Tourism and other ISS commercial efforts are part of the collective form of just 30-page policy - thanks to the NASA's commercial LEO development plan - which was released on Friday

Sierra Nevada Corp is a commercial interest that is actively testing its multi-mission space utility vehicle, Dream Chaser. This vessel is similar to NASA's retired space shuttle in which it can be sent by rocket to LEO, and  can be landed on the airstrip after returning to Earth. However, it should be a more robust vehicle that is designed to be a temporary orbital science laboratory.

NASA astronaut Steve Lindsay, who is the Vice Chairman of the Space Exploration System with more than 30 years of experience in flight testing, he said, "I think the commercial-use policy is really important how open the market is".

NASA Chief Financial Officer Jeff Davit said that the plan "will enable NASA to focus resources on the moon by 2024 to bring the next man and the first woman". This is not a profit-making venture for NASA, the costs we spend to maintain the station and remaining cost spend to go further into space and go to Mars. "
 Dewitt said that once every six to 12 months the rate card will be re-evaluated. Accordingly the  ticket will be cheaper.

Cost per citizen:-  The current pricing plan is expensive. For sending cargo to ISS, only 3,000 dollars per kilogram will be spent, life support and toilet facilities cost $ 11,250 per person per day. 
The cost of access to food, air, medical kit and onboard gym is $ 22,500 per person per day.





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